Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Andrews

TRIEBER, District Judge.

The complainant, a corporation existing under the laws of the state of New York and engaged in the business of conveying messages by telegraph, seeks by this bill to enjoin the defendants, who are the prosecuting attorneys of the 17 judicial circuits of the state of Arkansas, from instituting against it any proceedings for penalties for its failure or refusal to comply with the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the state entitled “An act to permit foreign corporations to do business in Arkansas, and fixing fees to be paid by all corporations,” approved…